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Martin Luther King Sr.

1899 - 1984

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Martin Luther King Sr. (born Michael King; December 19, 1899 – November 11, 1984) was an African-American Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early figure in the civil rights movement. He was the father and namesake of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. King was the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church from 1931 to 1975. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Luther King Sr. is the 223rd most popular social activist (up from 525th in 2019), the 2,640th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,554th in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Martin Luther King Sr. ranks 223 out of 840. Before him are Fred Phelps, Kittur Chennamma, Czesława Kwoka, Christoph Probst, Stjepan Filipović, and Ludolf von Alvensleben. After him are Lepa Radić, Dmitry Muratov, Christabel Pankhurst, Campaspe, Ravachol, and Sophia Perovskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Martin Luther King Sr. ranks 82. Before him are Hans Jeschonnek, Fritz Bayerlein, Hayato Ikeda, Marcel Achard, Raoul Salan, and Ida Kamińska. After him are Lotte Reiniger, Veit Harlan, Adam Rainer, Nikolay Voronov, Pancho Vladigerov, and Michał Kalecki. Among people deceased in 1984, Martin Luther King Sr. ranks 69. Before him are Mark W. Clark, Raoul Salan, Joseph Losey, George Gaylord Simpson, Marcel Janco, and Fikret Amirov. After him are He Zizhen, Eduardo De Filippo, Branko Ćopić, Ernesto Mascheroni, José Mauro de Vasconcelos, and Walter Tevis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martin Luther King Sr. ranks 2,640 out of 20,380. Before him are Frederick Schule (1879), Johnny Sins (1978), Cesar Romero (1907), Jenna Jameson (1974), Rick Baker (1950), and Richard Williams (1942). After him are Leo McCarey (1898), Christina Aguilera (1980), John Breckinridge (1760), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Michael Phelps (1985), and Jean Tatlock (1914).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Martin Luther King Sr. ranks 29. Before him are Frances Willard (1839), David Lane (1938), Frederick Douglass (1818), Billy Milligan (1955), Sojourner Truth (1797), and Fred Phelps (1929). After him are Gloria Steinem (1934), Edward Snowden (1983), Emmett Till (1941), Coretta Scott King (1927), Edna Parker (1893), and George Lincoln Rockwell (1918).

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